Grants and Contributions

Through this 33-month systemic change project, Sistering A Woman’s Place will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, it will address the knowledge gap regarding women and gender-diverse peer workers’ experiences and provide a Roadmap for how organizations can modify their practices to create equitable employment. This will be accomplished by developing a community of Practice, conducting a literature review of peer work, carrying out an environmental scan, setting up focus groups, interviews; performing data analysis, hosting a Peer Forum event , developing an equitable peer employment framework, and providing a Roadmap for employers to help them change harmful policies. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 24-month systemic change project, the Support Network for Indigenous Women & Women of Colour will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within healthcare occupations through conducting stakeholder mapping and policy mapping, providing training, capacity building, convening quarterly roundtables, and hosting an annual summit for stakeholders. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

This 21-month project will be a scale-up of YWCA Metro Vancouver’s previously funded systemic change project, City Shift. Specifically, the project will expand its reach with new audiences, new partnerships with additional municipalities, and will leverage a new suite of resources with the goal of fostering more inclusive and equitable city planning and policy development. This project will create and pilot a peer advocacy prototype partner with new municipalities to pilot Gender-Based Analysis Plus; create a peer advocacy learning module that can be used in future systems-change projects; and expand its reach with the inclusion of more cities through the development and implementation of new resources and workshops. Through expanded government relations and public engagement strategies, the project will centre participant stories to reach new audiences and help create the communities deserved by all.

This 33-month systemic change project will help increase women’s representation in leadership roles in corporate Canada, with a focus on growing the share of women from underrepresented groups in those positions. The project will share evidence-based and community-informed actionable measures for corporation in two major industries to implement so that they can address the following barriers: hiring and promotion bias, recruitment of women (especially women with intersecting identities), and inequitable compensation. Additionally, the project will work with the federal government to develop incentives to encourage companies beyond the federally regulated sectors to also disclose their gender-disaggregated data. Finally, the project will deliver a public awareness campaign that seeks to increase positive sentiment held by Canadians for the advancement of women in the workplace and a recognition that when women succeed, all Canadians benefit. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 21-month systemic-change project, Up With Women∕Exponenti’elles will scale the Up with Experts project to advance women’s economic security and prosperity. It will scale to reach more professionals including those who live in rural areas to serve as subject area expert volunteers for their clients and alumni. The scaling will also deepen the learning so volunteers will have a better understanding of how to integrate trauma and gender awareness into the work they do.

Ultimately, this will create workplaces that are more inclusive and supportive of vulnerable women and gender-diverse people. To do so, the project will develop and deliver industry-specific trainings on how to support vulnerable people, partner with industry associations to include the trainings in their micro-credentialing program, implement a user-friendly online community platform, and continue engaging companies and their employees.

At the end of the project, vulnerable women∕gender-diverse-people will have access to trauma-informed professional advice; subject area experts will be volunteers equipped with skills and compassion to support vulnerable people; companies will demonstrate a change in perspective, practice or policy to reflect greater inclusion and support of vulnerable people; and professional associations with include and promote the training as part of their micro-credentialing program.

Through this 21-month project, Sayaspora will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will address governance, financial resources, partnerships, and human resources management. The project will include strengthening organizational governance and resources, strengthening financial partnerships, increasing collaboration and developing a feminist network of partners supporting women from the African diaspora in Canada, and developing and implementing strategies to increase the organization’s visibility and improve human resources management.

Through this 21-month systemic change project, Elevate Aviation will scale their feminist response and recovery project to further advance women’s equality, safety, retention and representation in leadership and decision-making roles in the aviation industry. It will scale to a Pan-Canadian reach (Prairies, Ontario, Pacific, Northern) addressing equality for women and underrepresented groups. The project will apply a DEI lens to focus on 3 key activities: DEI benchmarking, consulting, and training with clients; evaluate client succession plans to address power imbalances; and analyze HR and recruitment policies to ensure companies are safe, welcoming and developing internal talent for long term retention.

Through this 33-month systemic change project, the Newfoundland and Labrador Organization for Women Entrepreneurs (NLOWE) will help advance women's economic security and prosperity and representation in leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address gender bias in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Newfoundland and Labrador through increased participation of women entrepreneurs by improving access to mentorship and networking opportunities for women entrepreneurs, reducing of gender bias in entrepreneurship-related policies and programs, and increasing economic growth and innovation driven by women entrepreneurs. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 33-month project, the Association Féministe d’Éducation et d’Action Sociale (AFEAS) will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. In particular, the project will address systemic barriers within the economy, employment, social norms, family, and the political sphere by bringing together provincial and national organizations in an inclusive, pan-Canadian coalition for equity in invisible work. This coalition will implement strategic actions in four or more WAGE regions to ensure invisible work is recognized, reduced, and redistributed equitably by bringing together, educating, and engaging with the public, employers, and provincial and federal elected officials to adopt concrete measures creating systemic change. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

This 9-month project will support FAFIA, and its work with other feminist organizations, to ensure that the review of Canada by the CEDAW Committee is effective and informed.

To achieve this, FAFIA will prepare its submission to CEDAW; coordinate with other women’s groups to ensure that central and specific issues will be canvassed in NGO submissions to the CEDAW review; organize a webinar to bring attention and profile to the review and issues of importance to women; attend the official Review event; and follow up with the Government of Canada, and other officials with recommendations.